AMIMON, headquartered in Herzelia, Israel with offices in Santa Clara, California; Tokyo, Japan; and Seoul, South Korea, is a fabless semiconductor company pioneering wireless uncompressed high-definition television (HDTV) connectivity. With over one hundred thousand chipsets sold in 2008, AMIMON has emerged as the market leader in this new and exciting space, making wireless HDTV a reality in the home.

AMIMON’s chipsets are embedded in new wireless HDTVs and video accessories by Sony,
Mitsubishi, Sharp and other major consumer electronics (CE) manufacturers. These systems
are now available to consumers in Europe, Japan and the U.S.

AMIMON’s technology has also enabled exciting new products in the medical and professional markets. Stryker Endoscopy recently
launched the world’s first HD surgical display based on AMIMON’s chipset in the medical endoscopy market. IDX, a leading provider of accessories in the broadcast equipment and professional video market, is shipping wireless links based on AMIMON’s technology that
attach to professional broadcast cameras.

AMIMON is a founding member of the Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) consortium formed by leading CE manufacturers to define a new industry standard for whole-home wireless uncompressed HDTV connectivity.

WHDI enables consumers to connect any source in the home to any display using a robust, high-quality wireless link, based on a unique
video-modem concept that operates in the 5GHz unlicensed band. WHDI supports wireless delivery of uncompressed 1080p HD video, with latency of less than one millisecond and a range of 100 feet through multiple walls.

“GSA has been a valuable resource to AMIMON Ltd by providing access to useful design, test and qualification information, giving us an updated benchmark to the semiconductor industry. The information we get from GSA and from its fellow members through various networking opportunities that GSA provides assists us in managing our supply chain and allows us to better serve our customers.”

– Aviram Matosevich, Vice President, Engineering, AMIMON Ltd.

Canova Tech has developed the Harvesting Sculptor, composed by a high-voltage IC and its reference design. The Harvesting Sculptor enables their customers to build, characterize and validate a complete power management system that extracts, regulates and stores power available from the environment.

The Harvesting Sculptor can rectify and regulate up to 50V peak-to-peak without using a standard diode bridge. In this way, the energy generated by a piezo-mechanical cantilever or an electromagnetic wireless power source is converted into a stable direct current (DC)
supply. The innovative Harvesting Sculptor consists of a flexible power management algorithm that enhances power transfer efficiency. The reference design is also equipped with a set of measurement resources that enable the complete assessment of the energetic characteristics of the environment.

The Harvesting Sculptor is designed today to meet the requests of ultra low-power systems supplied by caps, supercaps or 5mAh rechargeable coins. Specific arrangements for high-power applications will soon be available. The device can be made available in the form of a semiconductor intellectual property (IP) block, and can therefore be integrated in a single chip with the customer’s proprietary
system. This combination creates a complete environment-powered device.

Canova Tech has proven its success in the market, focusing on a comprehensive set of high-voltage, analog-intensive IP. With the Harvesting Sculptor, Canova Tech can finally offer a unique one-stop shop in power management IC design. Canova Tech’s priorities are to provide customers with the highest current performance design level and enable them to reach excellence in terms of
investment appraisal.

“Our priority to be on the edge of the semiconductor market led us to GSA. I can say that there is no other place where we feel at ease. Whether you are a manager in an experienced company, an executive of a successful start-up or just a player in the semiconductor field, GSA membership will help you fulfill your professional challenges.”

– Alessandro Ingrassia, General Manager, Canova Tech Srl.

Crocus Technology is an early-stage developer of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) technology for dense, non-volatile, high-speed, scalable RAM memories. Founded in 2004, Crocus is currently completing the prototype phase of its process and chip development. The company’s MRAM technology was conceived in the Grenoble-based Spintec laboratory, a world-leading research and development (R&D) center in Spintronics affiliated with two famous French labs, CEA and CNRS. Crocus’ industry-leading R&D allows the company to boast key innovations in both thermally-assisted MRAM and thermally-assisted switching (TAS) technology, as well as in advanced proprietary spin-torque architecture. TAS resolves difficult issues with manufacturing and scaling MRAM chips encountered in first-generation MRAM developments, and can be used with traditional MRAM structures as well as advanced spin-torque bit cells.

Crocus possesses unique capabilities for full MRAM process development and integration, and sustains both magnetic and conventional wafer processing equipment and engineering. The company is planning to target its technology for use in high-density standalone memory and embedded system-on-chip (SOC) applications.

Its MRAM technology is covered by a comprehensive patent portfolio in both TAS and spin torque. The company licenses its technology for standalone and embedded chip applications in a wide variety of telecommunication, networking, storage, computing and handheld applications.

Crocus is backed by venture capital (VC) firms AGF, CDC Enterprises, NanoDimension, Sofinnova Partners, Sofinnova Ventures and Ventech, and has operations in Grenoble, France and Sunnyvale, California with nearly 30 employees.

“GSA is an organization that reaches every branch of the semiconductor food chain. This is an important organization for us to participate in so we can reach out to our potential customer base as well as our manufacturing base.”

– Jean Pierre Braun, CEO, Crocus Technology

Until now, existing analog and digital technologies have failed to adequately simplify the power supply design process and enable the ease-of-use and efficiencies that customers demand. This dynamic, coupled with the increasing shortage of skilled and experienced power designers, threatens to halt the continuous performance improvements expected in new generation processors. Without innovative, new technologies that reduce the complexity of designing power converters, tomorrow’s processors may not be able to reach their performance potential. Powervation’s unique digital control technology removes the complexities from this design process.

Founded in January 2006, the company offers a new class of Auto-control™ digital power IC solutions that optimize power supply performance and efficiencies for manufacturers of electronic systems used in computing, storage and netcom applications.

At the heart of the solution is Auto-control, a digital algorithm that enables a direct current/direct current (DC/DC) control circuit to sense circuit conditions, such as load, capacitance and inductance, and automatically adapt the power control function to compensate accurately. The first product utilizing Auto-control is Powervation’s Plug-and-Power™ controller — an innovative digital signal processing-based power controller which delivers unprecedented flexibility, performance, ease-of-use and potential energy savings across a broad range of power supply designs.

The Powervation technology team is driven by a simple mission: to transform the way energy is delivered and managed. From its European headquarters in Ireland and its U.S. hub in Palo Alto, California, the company is already delivering on its promise. Sampling at multiple customer sites is already underway, with designers reporting significant advantages over conventional digital power solutions.

“GSA is an organization that provides unmatched exposure for emerging innovators like our company, and facilitates strong connections with customers, peers and other influencers across the globe. GSA’s insight into industry trends is extremely valuable. Powervation is the leader in digital power IC solutions, and as a fabless company, we rely on strong organizations, such as GSA, to support and
promote this business model.”

– Benoit Herve, Vice President, Marketing, Powervation